[ale] I386 packages wont run

[mike at trausch.us (Michael B. Trausch)]

Paul Cartwright, on 09/13/2007 07:44 AM said:
> so now my Debian amd64 system is beginning to get me.. I tried to
> install AIM for my wife, and I download the .deb. When I run it I get
> wrong package type, I386 will not run on this computer, or something
> to that effect. This has happened before, and I don't know what to
> do?

Is there any reason not to use something like Pidgin?

I understand that Debian actually keeps the latest version around
somewhere, and I've heard that Ubuntu's "prevu" automatic backporting
utility works on Debian, too.

By the way, proprietary software vendors don't tend to support amd64.
If you'd like to see that change, complain loudly to them all...

	-- Mike

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